Passage of the title compound through a short column of Al2O3 induces deace
tylation to form CpFe(ethyl-2-phenylacetate) hexafluorophosphate. This comp
ound is shown to react with base to generate the stabilized enolate, which
is dideuteriated or dimethylated upon quenching with excess D2O or CH3I. (C
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